El Gigante Egoista

I. Tittle:

The Selfish Giant

II. Setting:

The story is set in the garden and the Giant's castle.

III. Characters

The selfish Giant (selfish, grumpy)

The children

The little boy (represent Jesus)

IV. Plot

A giant erects a wall to keep children out of his garden, reaping the consequences of a continuous winter. After months of winter with no other seasons in sight, spring suddenly returns when the children slip into a hole in the wall and play in the trees, except for one corner of winter where a little boy is too small to climb into the tree. The giant's heart melts at the sight and, realizing how selfish he's been, he helps the child into the tree. He then tears down the wall and tells the children it was their garden to play in. Years pass and the giant enjoys playing with the children, but never sees the one special boy he first helped. One day when he had grown old, he again sees the little boy, who appears with wounds in His hands and feet. He has come to escort the giant to His garden, which is paradise.

V. Problem:

The story try to say with the personification that new generations are a new sight for the future of the country. The giant fights with his own egoism to refresh is garden with new airs of happiness for the children. After this transformation both the giant and the children cooperate to transformate the land in a better place to live, as a union of aristocracy and new generations to utopically perform the nation. In consequence the most important change in the story is the final transformation of the garden, refering to England; so the transformation’s agents are the children and the giant.

The poem taken to make a comparison is “From a college window”, which tell us about a person who see the life as an existential dilemma because he or she has fears about life, that’s why stand looking a beggar and finnaly notice that it is not a safe future for him or her keeping that dilemma and it is better make an effort.

V. Problem:

The giant did not let the children play in his garden, so there winter had settled forever and the trees forgot to blossom.

VI. Solution:

One day, a child's love touched the hard heart of the giant and then realized how selfishness had driven the spring of their garden and the beauty of life.

VII. Main idea

The story is basically about the unselfish love that Jesus had for this world. The giant represents the world. the children are it's inhabitants, the little boy represents Jesus. When the world is selfish or when people think only of themselves, they tend to live a very miserable and lonely life... thus the giant was such. When the children had the freedom to run around, they were happy and there was life all around. When the giant realized that

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